The Berry-Hannay Phase of the Equal-Sided Spring-Jointed Four-Bar Mechanism

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In this work we apply the moving systems approach developed by Marsden, Montgomery, and Ratiu to a free-floating, equal-sided, spring-jointed, four-bar mechanism that is being slowly rotated about its central axis and derive a formula for the induced geometric phase.